The Hawaiian Chinese News[2] (Chinese: 檀山新報; Jyutping: taan4 saan1 san1 bou3; pinyin: Tánshān xīnbào), also known as New Honolulu Journal,[3] Tan Shan Hsin Pao,[4] Lung Kee Sun Bo, [5] was a Chinese language commercial newspaper in Honolulu, USA. It was founded by Cheng Weinan in 1881, initially called the Lung Chi Pao (隆記報),[6] renamed Tan Shan Hsin Pao (檀山新報) in 1903.[7]

Hawaiian Chinese News
Hawaiian Chinese News published on 8 October 1904
Founded1881[1]
Ceased publication1907
HeadquartersHonolulu
OCLC number13178514
Hawaiian Chinese News
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTánshān xīnbào

The earliest known preserved issue of the Hawaiian Chinese News, with the date of April 13, 1889, contains a report on the political situation in Samoa.[8] It was the first Chinese language newspaper in Honolulu.[9]

Hawaiian Chinese News was the voice of Sun Yat-sen and his revolutionary party.[10] In 1907, the newspaper ceased publication.[11]

References

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  1. ^ The Hawaiian Journal of History. Hawaiian Historical Society. 1984.
  2. ^ Patrick Anderson (28 June 2021). Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer. Taylor & Francis. pp. 430–. ISBN 978-1-00-039624-9.
  3. ^ Marie-Claire Bergère; Janet Lloyd (1998). Sun Yat-sen. Stanford University Press. pp. 476–. ISBN 978-0-8047-4011-1.
  4. ^ Helen Geracimos Chapin (1 July 1996). Shaping History: The Role of Newspapers in Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-0-8248-1718-3.
  5. ^ Bob Dye (1 January 1997). Merchant Prince of the Sandalwood Mountains: Afong and the Chinese in Hawai?i. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 197–. ISBN 978-0-8248-1772-5.
  6. ^ Liu Jialin (2005). General History of Chinese Journalism. Wuhan University Press. ISBN 978-7-307-04606-1.
  7. ^ Tan Tianxing; Shen Lixin (1998). History of Overseas Chinese Culture. Shanghai People's Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-208-02353-6.
  8. ^ Lorenz Gonschor (30 June 2019). A Power in the World: The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 205–. ISBN 978-0-8248-8001-9.
  9. ^ Clarence Elmer Glick (1980). Sojourners and Settlers, Chinese Migrants in Hawaii. University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-0707-8.
  10. ^ Myron Echenberg (April 2010). Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901. NYU Press. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-0-8147-2233-6.
  11. ^ "Hawaiian Chinese News (Honolulu, H.I.) 1883-1907". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2021-07-10.